March 2013
March 23rd, 2013
Written by Cara A. Anthony... in All About Family with 0 Comments
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - At age 88, Kenyon Parker still goes every day to the gym, where he shares stories of his time as a World War II soldier.
The Frederick resident spent three years in the then-racially segregated U.S. Army, enlisting at age 18.
Parker was a junior in high school when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. A year later, he enlisted and traveled to England, France, Germany, the Panama Canal...
March 22nd, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Feature Stories with 1 Comment
On Feb. 21, 2013 over 200 Black LGBT celebrated in the nation's capital during the annual Black LGBT Emerging Leaders Day - an event highlighted on the White House website during African American History Month. The politics of African American opposition to gays and same-sex marriage has come a long way and the longtime assumption that blacks are against gay rights seems to be experiencing a sea...
March 22nd, 2013
Written by Jim Fitzgerald ... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
SPRING VALLEY, New York (AP) — School board meetings descend into shouting matches. Accusations of racism and anti-Semitism fly. Angry parents turn their backs on board members in a symbolic stand of disrespect.
Tension in a suburban New York school district is rooted in an unusual dynamic: The families who send their children to public schools are mostly Hispanic and African-American. The school...
March 22nd, 2013
Written by John Heilprin -... in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
GENEVA (AP) - The ugly side of the beautiful game was exposed Thursday as the U.N.'s top human rights official joined football officials and players in calling for an end to the "crime" of racism in sport.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said the world is a long way from achieving that as evidenced by a series of incidents including racist insults and chants, Nazi salutes,...
March 21st, 2013
Written by Phillip Elliott... in Education, the Great Equalizer, Race Relations with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - Teachers say they are grouping students of similar abilities with each other inside classrooms and schools are clustering pupils with like interests together - a practice once frowned upon - according to a review of federal education surveys.
The Brookings Institution report released Monday shows a dramatic increase in both ability grouping and student tracking among fourth- and...